This series of drawings shows the Main Line, starting at Port Clinton and heading south to Reading, through Reading Yard and on to Birdsboro. The Reading Belt Line is also included. Please note that the source drawings for this set are photocopies, and may be slightly cut off at the sides and bottom, but critical info is readily discernible.
- Main Line/Belt Line_1
- Hits: 2466
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Description:
The Main Line, between Port Clinton and Hamburg.
- Main Line/Belt Line_2
- Hits: 1890
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Description:
Dauberville, Leesport and south.
- Main Line/Belt Line_3
- Hits: 1920
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Description:
Tuckerton and south, approaching Belt Line Junction.
- Main Line/Belt Line_4
- Hits: 1915
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Description:
Belt Line Junction.
- Main Line/Belt Line_5
- Hits: 2127
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Description:
North end of Reading Yard, showing WATER and PIKE interlockings. On this drawing, the "East Penn" Branch is the "Hill Track," the original alignment of the East Penn Branch before construction of the Blandon Low Grade.
- Main Line/Belt Line_6
- Hits: 2063
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Description:
OLEY interlocking, where the Main Line and Lebanon Valley Branch diverge (two legs of the wye at the Outer Station).
- Main Line/Belt Line_7
- Hits: 2003
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Description:
WALNUT interlocking, the other side of the wye at the Outer Station.
- Main Line/Belt Line_8
- Hits: 1981
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Description:
The area around Franklin Street Station and heading through the south part of Reading.
- Main Line/Belt Line_9
- Hits: 2055
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Description:
Klapperthal Junction (where the Belt Line joins the Main Line) and south to Lorane.
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